CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Every city has a story, a history. Communities that settled long before modern developments. Sometimes that history is held onto and preserved, and in others, it’s lost, forgotten or destroyed.
That’s the case when it comes to Brooklyn — but not in New York.
“Brooklyn was the original, if you were going to say a Black neighborhood in Charlotte. It was the first,” historian Pam Grundy told WBTV.
Charlotte’s Brooklyn neighborhood took up nearly 50 blocks of the center city, nestled between 4th, Brevard, Morehead and McDowell streets. It was a city within a city under segregation with Black businesses, restaurants, theaters and more…